January 16, 2008
Oh Snow, how I love thee! It’s your cousin Ice, that I hate….
Posted by imhelendt under Children, Family, Humor, Seattle, snowHaving lived my entire life without snow, when we moved here three years ago, we were SO excited about the snow! We LOVE the snow! We check the weather reports repeatedly all winter anticipating the snow. It crushes our very souls when the promised snow is not delivered and Steve and I run around like kids when the heavens rain down the sweet, fluffy whiteness and turn our world into a winter wonderland. I mentioned we love the snow, right? The first snow of the year, I lay in wait for the kids to get off the bus, then POW! I hit them with snowballs. Did I say we LOVE the snow yet?!?!
This love of snow is in stark contrast to my dear friend Ree, who is from Michigan and refers to snow by it’s more common name, suck-ass snow. Actually my day is not complete until Ree says suck-ass snow. Because it’s funny. Because I don’t think it sucks at all. 
I was beginning to see her point last night though, when I stepped out the car and was hit in the face with a snowball by a child who does not wish to see adulthood. The thing about snow is that it’s cold and it dribbles all into your clothes and slips down your cleavage in a most uncomfortable fashion. However, I discovered something else that I really don’t like even more. It’s called SUCK-ASS ICE! Oh yes. Steve’s car slid out of the driveway last night and I almost died today slipping on black ice…..We do NOT like SUCK-ASS ICE.
January 16, 2008 at 11:20 am
Ah yes, suck ass ice. We have some in our driveway now. I went out earlier to try and remove some of it. Fortunatly most of the yard is covered with a foot or more of delightful snow.
Well it is delightful once I get it off the drive way and walk way.
January 16, 2008 at 11:36 am
I want snow, I want snow!!!! I remember back in the day when we used to get big fluffy piles of the stuff. Now it’s a miracle when we get a light dusting of it! And I haven’t moved! I’m still in the same city. So sad. How about packaging some of that snow and sending it my way? I have this urge to make a snow angel and it would be weird to do it in the grass with no snow.
January 16, 2008 at 11:40 am
Alfred- I don’t know what I did with the de-icing stuff, but I tell you, our driveway is treacherous right now. We don’t have that much, it’s melting, but it’s the first snow that really stuck around so far this winter.
Zee- Really? Weird. Uh, I can package you up a nice big box of it, but uh…well it could be soggy later.
You might have to go with the grass angel idea. ;D
January 16, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Everything that pours out of the heavens between November and June is suck-ass-blank.
snow? ice? rain? sleet?
every.thing.
January 16, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Everything that pours out of the heavens between November and June is suck-ass-blank.
snow? ice? rain? sleet?
every.thing.
January 16, 2008 at 1:51 pm
OH SNOW! i LOVE it too! this is our second year in New England (transplanted from Georgia) and i’m in LOVE with the snow…
last winter we had two ice storms and very little snow…. i LOATHE icestorms.
this december we completely busted the record for snowfall in the area.
GLORIOUS WHITE BEAUTIFUL FLUFFY SNOW!!!
January 16, 2008 at 1:51 pm
oh - and thank you for stopping by Whatever Wednesdays - they can be rather overwhelming for me as well!
January 16, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Oh how i loathe snow! Im stuck here in the not so great state of Vermont. If i could banish snow i soooo would. It would be amzing to be sunny and 75 year round in Vermont..
January 16, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I suppose it is mostly people that have lived with snow all of their life that loathe it. Like me! I was born and raised in Ohio and I hate snow! I hate winter in general! the cold, the snow, the ice, the slush, the crap!! It truly is suck-ass snow!!!!
January 16, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I wouldn’t know first hand, but snow sliding into a bra sounds like the opposite of fun. A wet, cold bra just makes Texas all the better.
Unless of course headlights are your thing…
January 16, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Ree- Suck-ass Ice! I.HATE.THE.ICE! the other stuff I can live with!
Mandy-Isn’t it fabulous! I LOOOOVEEE ITT!!!! Yes, next time I better stop by when there aren’t too many rules. Me and rules don’t get along that well.
Jesse- Trust me. You get bored with the same weather EVERY. EFFIN. DAY. I lived in California for 23 years. WHERE THERE ARE NO SEASONS! You would truly appreciate the suck ass snow in suck ass vermont. ;D lol.
Dea- But..But…How can you hate it’s white white loveliness? ;D
txau- Oh.yes.O-P-P-O-S-I-T-E O-F F-U-N….
January 16, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Suck-Ass-Winter.
My dream is to move to Arizona.
January 16, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Fig- ‘Cept you know it’s 110-115 in the summer, right? Fricken AFRICA HOT.
January 17, 2008 at 7:24 am
I haven’t moved either, yet we never get any snow. When we do, the hubby and I act like you. Running around like kids, begging the kids to come play outside with us.
January 17, 2008 at 9:14 am
Oh yes… I do know it’ll be hot and YEAH BABY that’s how I like it! (that’s the espresso talkin’
It’s supposed to be -5 for a high temp on Saturday… and that’s considered “not bad” for this time of year. I want out.
January 17, 2008 at 11:49 am
Fellow Seattleite who agrres with Ree…It is Suck-ass-snow. And this opinion happens to have formed during an unpleasant 6 month stay in Detroit, Michigan, THE suckiest-assiest-snowiest place ever.
January 17, 2008 at 11:59 am
Alyson- I think climates change over the years. Apparently it didn’t snow here for years.
Fig- LOL! Ew. I’d be freezin’ my knickers off.
Ethansmama- LOL!! Hmmm. Note to self. Never go to Michigan.
January 18, 2008 at 7:39 am
I’m Canadian and I love snow and all the fun stuff that comes with it - skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, skating, hockey, snow angels, snowmen - everything! Winter is great.
But black ice sucks. Especially when you hit it on you bike, going down a hill at full speed without a helmet. Then one more time later on, just for fun. I feel like I’ve been in a car accident
January 21, 2008 at 3:55 pm
we have nothing but floods over here at the minute!
Its depressing!
What did we have last summer? Rain, Rain and more Rain! about fifteen miles up the motorway from us there was a major emergancy, the banks of the river were about to burst the flood water was so high, and if it had done it would have taken a power station out with it! It woul have affected homes allover England! the army and fire service were called in and there were miles of pipes laid to try and pump it away. One of our biggest shopping centres (Malls) was under flood water, they have only just got back to normal properly, not good fgor the shop owners, but there were some fantastic bargains to be had! lol
I’d rather have the snow than the rain I think at the minute.
January 21, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Sandi- Oh yes. The black ice totally SUCKS! I hope you’re feeling better soon!
Nemma- Wow, I think I’d rather you have snow too! Take care!